A39674:793
Planelogia, a succinct and seasonable discourse of the occasions, causes, nature, rise, growth, and…
Planelogia, a succinct and seasonable discourse of the occasions, causes, nature, rise, growth, and remedies of mental errors written some months since, and now made public, both for the healing and prevention of the sins and calamities which have broken in this way upon the churches of Christ, to the great scandal of religion, hardening of the wicked, and obstruction of Reformation : whereunto are subjoined by way of appendix : I. Vindiciarum vindex, being a succinct, but full answer to Mr. Philip Cary's weak and impertinent exceptions to my Vindiciæ legis & fæderis, II. a synopsis of ancient and modern Antinomian errors, with scriptural arguments and reasons against them, III. a sermon composed for the preventing and healing of rents and divisions in the churches of Christ / by John Flavell ... ; with an epistle by several divines, relating to Dr. Crisp's works.Planelogia, a succinct and seasonable discourse of the occasions, causes, nature, rise, growth, and remedies of mental errors written some months since, and now made publick, both for the healing and prevention of the sins and calamities which have broken in this way upon the churches of Christ, to the great scandal of religion, hardening of the wicked, and obstruction of Reformation : whereunto are subjoined by way of appendix : I. Vindiciarum vindex, being a succinct, but full answer to Mr. Philip Cary's weak and impertinent exceptions to my Vindiciæ legis & fæderis, II. a synopsis of ancient and modern Antinomian errors, with scriptural arguments and reasons against them, III. a sermon composed for the preventing and healing of rents and divisions in the churches of Christ / by John Flavell ... ; with an epistle by several divines, relating to Dr. Crisp's works.
London: printed by R. Roberts for Tho. Cockerill, 1691
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
SIR,
I Resolved not to disturb my mind with your passionate provoking Language, at least whilst I was busily employed in searching for Reason and Argument (two scarce Commodities) amongst heaps of vain and fulsome words. Nor will I now imitate your folly and rudeness, lest I become an Offender, whilst I am to act the part of a Reprover. When I read your Title, A Just and Sober Reply, and presently fell in among rude insults, silly evasions, and such inartificial discourses as follow in your Book; I began to challenge you in my thoughts, for matching such bad stuff with so fair and lovely a Title: But a second thought quickly corrected the former; for I considered no Man living could justly forbid the Marriage betwixt your Book and its Title, since there is not the least kindred or relation between them.
I Resolved not to disturb my mind with your passionate provoking Language, at least whil'st I was busily employed in searching for Reason and Argument (two scarce Commodities) amongst heaps of vain and fulsome words. Nor will I now imitate your folly and rudeness, lest I become an Offender, whilst I am to act the part of a Reprover. When I read your Title, A Iust and Sober Reply, and presently fell in among rude insults, silly evasions, and such inartificial discourses as follow in your Book; I began to challenge you in my thoughts, for matching such bad stuff with so fair and lovely a Title: But a second thought quickly corrected the former; for I considered no Man living could justly forbid the Marriage betwixt your Book and its Title, since there is not the least kindred or relation between them.
Had your Answers been just, you would have observed the Rules of a Respondent, which you have not done: And if they had been sober, you had never ⟨p. 298⟩